Effective March 22, 2023, learners will no longer be able to sign into the UW Canvas LMS or Panopto by using a commercial Gmail account.
After this date, all individuals accessing Canvas and Panopto must use a personal UW NetID account.
If you support guests and affiliates who sign in with commercial Gmail accounts and they are not eligible for a personal UW NetID, you can provide a sponsored UW NetID account and grant it access to Canvas and Panopto with the Provisioning Request Tool.
If Gmail account users you support do have a UW NetID, you can point them to instructions on how they can continue to access courses and recordings in Canvas and Panopto using their UW NetID.
Instructors who teach Canvas courses in which learners are enrolled using a Gmail account — and the learners themselves — will be contacted about this change and how to continue signing in with a UW NetID.
You will receive an additional reminder message during winter quarter 2023.
Questions? Please contact the service team via help@uw.edu.
Thank you,
UW-IT Canvas and Panopto teams